ARGONAUT BOOKS

"The Aesthetics of Resistance is centrally important to any kind of assessment of twentieth-century German history."-James Rolleston, editor of A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka "For the right reader, The Aesthetics of Resistance offers unique rewards. The West's literary memory of twentieth- century communism was largely shaped by ex- and anti-Communist writers like Arthur Koestler, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Czeslaw Milosz, and George Orwell, who saw it as inimical to spiritual and intellectual life. Weiss makes a passionate case to the contrary, arguing that for the poor and oppressed, c...Read More